Economic History
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Fulfillment: America in the Shadow of Amazon
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“A grounded and expansive examination of the American economic divide . . . It takes a skillful journalist to weave data and anecdotes together so effective- Author: Macgillis, Alec
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829275
- Language: English
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The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
$19.95 Add to cartHow silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters today
This is the story of silver’s transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and h- Author: Silber, William L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0691208697
- Language: English
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The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What It Means for Business and Society
$28.00 Add to cartOver 6.4 billion people participate in a $36.5 trillion global economy, designed and overseen by no one. How did this marvel of self-organized complexity evolve? How is wealth created within this syst
- Author: Beinhocker, Eric D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 14 2007
- ISBN10: 1422121038
- Language: English
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Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy
$27.93 Read moreFrom the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today’s intangible economy
The past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting in- Author: Haskel, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0691236038
- Language: English
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Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
$29.95 Add to cartWhy stable banking systems are so rare
Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries–but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has h- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #50
- Author: Calomiris, Charles W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168350
- Language: English
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The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
$36.99 Add to cartDavid Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive–even stories as familiar as Paul Revere’s ride, or as complicated as the assimilat… [more below]
- Author: Fischer, David Hackett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: November 11 1999
- ISBN10: 019512121X
- Language: English
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On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
$21.99 Read moreFormer Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson — who was at the very epicenter of the crashing financial markets — provides a startling, first- person account of what really happened during this time… [more below]
- Author: Paulson, Henry M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1455551902
- Language: English
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El Fin (Y Regreso) de la Confusión: Doscientos Años de Errores Interesados Que Han Impedido El Desarrollo de México
$24.95 Add to cartDoscientos años de errores interesados que han impedido el desarrollo de México
El fin de la confusión se publicó en 2014. La idea era explicar por qué las reformas estructurales de 2013 nos permi
- Author: Schettino, Macario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 607569398X
- Language: Spanish
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Default: The Landmark Court Battle Over Argentina’s $100 Billion Debt Restructuring
$29.95 Add to cartThe dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law
Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, nations do not have access to bankruptcy protection f
- Author: Makoff, Gregory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1647123976
- Language: English
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Demand Transparency: Stop Wall Street Greed and Rising Taxes From Destroying Your Wealth
$36.00 Add to cartJason Mandel sheds light on how the big Wall Street firms manipulate circumstances to benefit themselves first, and their clients second. Mandel argues that investors must demand transparency and seek
- Author: Mandel, Jason G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1956914919
- Language: English
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Gdp: A Brief But Affectionate History – Revised and Expanded Edition
$17.95 Add to cartHow GDP came to rule our lives-and why it needs to change
Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013-or Ghana’s balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did- Author: Coyle, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169853
- Language: English
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The Rise of the Creative Class
$21.99 Add to cartWorld-renowned urbanist Richard Florida’s bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century — now updated with a new preface
In his modern classic The Rise of the Cre… [more below]- Author: Florida, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1541617746
- Language: English
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Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank That Runs the World
$21.99 Add to cartTower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world’s most secretive global financial institution. Based on extensive archival research in Switzerland, Britain, and the United States, and i… [more below]
- Author: LeBor, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393813
- Language: English
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Manipulating the World Economy: The Rise of Modern Monetary Theory & the Inevitable Fall of Classical Economics – Is there an Alternative?
$125.00 Add to cartThe economic theories that dominated the field during the 20th century have failed us and empowered government to believe they can manipulate the business cycle. Every economic theory presented post-M
- Author: Armstrong, Martin A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1662914466
- Language: English
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Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America’s railroad titans
In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the transcontinental railroad, few- Author: Hiltzik, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0358567122
- Language: English
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Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the Us Working Class
$24.95 Add to cartA brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United States
Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist hi
- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1786635909
- Language: English
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution
$28.00 Add to cartWorld-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will funda… [more below]
- Author: Schwab, Klaus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1524758868
- Language: English
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The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
$18.00 Add to cartWith the immediacy of today’s NASDAQ close and the timeless power of a Greek tragedy, The Quants is at once a masterpiece of explanatory journalism, a gripping tale of ambition and hubris, and an omin… [more below]
- Author: Patterson, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0307453383
- Language: English
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Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600–1900
$35.00 Add to cartCommerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world
It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expa- Author: Bown, Stephen R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 07, 2010
- ISBN10: 0312616112
- Language: English
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
$35.00 Add to cartRichard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans–predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hil
- Author: Thaler, Richard H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 11 2015
- ISBN10: 0393080943
- Language: English
